Jan. 4th, 2026 04:36 pm
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chocolatepotPot roast in the oven, lentils started on the stove for meal prep ... can relax again.
In another two-week-wait! I had to drive to Syracuse on Tuesday for the IUI, and it was not so bad getting there but terrible coming home, particularly after I charged the car for ~45 mins. Couldn't get anything for lunch because everywhere in and around Syracuse was closed due to the storm. I'm hoping that the "this will make a great 'where you came from' story someday" factor is on my side.
About a week ago, I started writing a new Regency romance, and it's going SO well. I partly attribute this to all of the practice (something like 450k words on AO3 over the past four years, plus several personal projects), but partly to the amount of deconstruction I've done on KJ Charles just this year. The former's made it so I can write more smoothly and the latter's helped me figure out how to plot well enough to not end up going "uhhh my outline says 'they get to know each other better' for this chapter" which then contributes to more smooth writing. I've given myself a minimum of 500 words a day and hitting it isn't really a problem? I've only just hit chapter three, so maybe I'm still in the easy-to-write-because-it's-new zone, but it feels different. Well, I guess Grand & Glorious and Arrow Collar Man were similar, it's just that the last original thing I started was a different Regency story that got stuck due to poor plotting (pre-KJ Charles) and also I had some fandom obligations at the end of the year that I didn't really want to write, so I haven't had the feeling of a story just WORKING for months.
In another two-week-wait! I had to drive to Syracuse on Tuesday for the IUI, and it was not so bad getting there but terrible coming home, particularly after I charged the car for ~45 mins. Couldn't get anything for lunch because everywhere in and around Syracuse was closed due to the storm. I'm hoping that the "this will make a great 'where you came from' story someday" factor is on my side.
About a week ago, I started writing a new Regency romance, and it's going SO well. I partly attribute this to all of the practice (something like 450k words on AO3 over the past four years, plus several personal projects), but partly to the amount of deconstruction I've done on KJ Charles just this year. The former's made it so I can write more smoothly and the latter's helped me figure out how to plot well enough to not end up going "uhhh my outline says 'they get to know each other better' for this chapter" which then contributes to more smooth writing. I've given myself a minimum of 500 words a day and hitting it isn't really a problem? I've only just hit chapter three, so maybe I'm still in the easy-to-write-because-it's-new zone, but it feels different. Well, I guess Grand & Glorious and Arrow Collar Man were similar, it's just that the last original thing I started was a different Regency story that got stuck due to poor plotting (pre-KJ Charles) and also I had some fandom obligations at the end of the year that I didn't really want to write, so I haven't had the feeling of a story just WORKING for months.
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